#19 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry was actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.

#20 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of all U.S. economic output. In 2008, it represented only 11.5 percent.

#21 The television manufacturing industry began in the United States. So how many televisions are manufactured in the United States today? According to Princeton University economist Alan S. Blinder, the grand total is zero.

#40 The U.S. national debt is now nearly 15 times larger than it was just 30 years ago.

It doesn’t have to be this way! Not a left right issue, as both have failed to protect our people, and it is the people who can turn this around by demanding that our leaders do exactly that! Will we stand as worthy stewards over our inheritance, or will we give our children and our grandchildren the pain of poverty and defeat?